skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"other companies have already started or will also start implementing this new Retina technology."

That is simply impossible for two reasons:

1) Retina display is a trademarked Apple phrase and no other company will ever have retina displays.
2) Retina is not a technology.

I think the word technology is being overused these days.

The author was simply talking about high-PPI displays when he said "this new Retina technology", which other companies have already "implemented" in their smartphone displays. Unless one is talking only about Apple products (which is not the case here) the term retina display should not be used.
Nitpicky, but you meant the typical home internet service is asymmetrical, not asynchronous.
Here's my "Short List" beyond the obvious ones (NY, Chicago, Boston):

Pittsburgh - Steady growth of banking and insurance has created a nice raft of demand for developers. (+) Great museums/culture, (+) food and (+) social scenes. (-) Stiff winters (although not as bad as some other places). (-) Requires a car, really. (+) Super-cheap rent.

D.C. - This is where I live now. Overall, I'm happy with it and don't plan on leaving anytime soon. Government, Non-Profit Associations, Defense and Politics provide an enormous raft of demand. Even mediocre developers can switch jobs at a whim and most smart employers know that and act accordingly. (+) Tons of free culture and activities. (+) Great infrastructure (car not necessary if you live by a metro). (-) Not much of a "startup scene", per se, but (+) insane opportunities for consulting. (You're not going to start a billion-dollar startup in DC, but you have a much better chance of starting a multi-million-dollar business than probably anywhere else in the country.) (-) Summers are nasty and humid. (Probably only Florida, Louisiana are worse). (+) Spring, Autumn are awesome and winters are (usually) mild. (-) Rent is expensive (but not like NY/SF/LA.)
I liked the "A Legitimately Interesting Technical Blog Post" being at the bottom.

I've seen that happen a few times, seeing an promising sounding article that might have some actual code and explanations in it on the front page. Then refresh the page and it's gone replaced with "Scrutinisation and speculation based on one sentence from an Apple press statement".

I suppose these articles will find it difficult to get to the top because they are more niche. I know there are other more programming focused places like proggit but they tend to focus more on "How I implemented SNES emulator in pure Haskell" type articles than practical ones for business.
> That’s the conclusion of new research from Israel, which confirms the truism that we idealize attractive people, and suggests that—at least as far as women are concerned—the pedestal we place them on is largely unearned.

What? Alert the media! This is supposed to be science? What did they use for a control group? Or did they have a control group?

> But this study, published in the journal Psychological Science, ...

Oh, right, never mind. Most of "psychological science" consists of confirming "scientifically" what 95% of people think is true anyway, thus winning an audience for contentless folk wisdom.

Psychological science is to science what military music is to music.
Not really. I specifically talked about a very specialised piece of the workflow, which is different from tackling a problem that is larger and has a lot of edge cases.
If you guys are actually real, then here is why my first impression was this was a piss-take / joke project:

- The presentation video is slick and has obviously been professionally produced. First impression of the home page on the other side is that it's a very quick & dirty job based on some generic website template. At first sight, it also looks like the site is just the home page and nothing else (tried to fill in the registration form on the home page and it didn't do anything).

So first impression is that you've spent an awful lot of time, energy and money into creating a fancy presentation video but haven't spent any time or resources into the product itself. Which is strange and doesn't give a great deal of confidence.

- The video is essentially a collection of every startup cliché you can think of: "we're creating a social network", "the possibilities are endless", statements about how your product is somehow going to revolutionise local communities, which, to be honest, sound like your typical pure bullshit PR-speak, etc. All filmed in the most stereotypical way I can think of. I'm sorry but my gut feelings here were that none of this was real or genuine.

And then there's those really weird clips of the founder playing guitar or browsing records in a record shop that don't really make any sense. I can only interpret them as taking the piss out of the stereotypical startup founder, who sees himself as a rock star and spends his time faffing around, bullshiting about how he's building the next Facebook, while expecting people to work for him for free / equity.

If this is a real project, then the way to improve this would simply be to focus completely on the product. At the stage you're at, the product is the one and only thing that matters. Fancy videos and big promises only come when you have a product that matches and delivers. Otherwise, it comes across as bullshit. (my personal opinion obviously - others may differ).
To install on Linux use the OTF files from https://github.com/downloads/adobe/Source-Code-Pro/SourceCod... and put them in /usr/share/fonts/opentype

I still prefer Ubuntu Mono though
Funny thing is. This company is called netvlies which is literally retina in dutch. They don't seem to mention it themselves..
Someone please make a web app that shows men how much Pincus and Wilson and co stole from me via selling this junk IPO to my mutual fund / 401k / pension against my will.
Open source equals software freedom, not free software
Same photo came up semi-recently: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120418.html
Reminds me a bit of Topple by ngmoco

http://topple.ngmoco.com
http://topple2.ngmoco.com

Although yours has more of a puzzle feel to it.
I'm far less optimistic. I was one of the most vocal and active pro-european-startup activists before I left for San Francisco in 2009. With no capital, I started multiple companies. Some failed, some are still active and now do combined multiple millions of annual revenue (e.g. mjam.net). I started Europe's first YC-inspired accelerator (YEurope) in 2006 and helped put the current global hackerspaces movement into motion so we'd have support infrastructure. Back then I regularly talked to european politicians up to the president level.

The point where I left for San Francisco was when I realized that no one there realizes that there is a causal link between wealth creation and having wealth. They don't know they have a problem, or even should they suspect it, they don't know what causes it.

On a recent trip back I haven't noticed any change in that - so even if they wanted to improve something, they wouldn't know what or how. The economic crisis provides a convenient excuse for all problems, not an incentive to explore what's wrong.

The easiest argument against Europe for startups is sadly on an individual level: Statistics. If you're one of the best - but not the best - entrepreneur in Europe (500 Million People), you know that almost no one more talented than you ever succeeded. And almost no one less talented either. In San Francisco, both people more and less talented succeed all the time.

So statistics. It's far more pretentious to think you're so much better than the best among 500 million, than to think you'll do well among the 8 million in the Bay Area.
I used the Source family briefly. It's quite nice, although there was something I didn't quite like about it. I replaced it with the Nimbus L family, which is very similar but seems easier to read to my eyes. (on X11, anyway. doesn't look quite as good on OS X for whatever reason).
> But now you can be .75 confused instead of 1 confused.

A confusion index of 1.0 would be described as perfectly confused. But, as is often said, nothing is perfect. :)
My 'traffic' to the website is ok (kind of what I hoped for) - but the conversion is way way below expectations.

maybe it's the wrong sort of traffic
Ibuprofen Is Not A Solution, Only A Buffer
What protocol does AeroFS use?
I'm from Germany, where the 3.8 million SMEs are the backbone of the economy. The famous Mittelstand competes worldwide and is considered in many areas to be among the world market leaders.

It could be that many of these companies are not doing sexy web stuff, but "uninteresting things" like machines and tools - with a lot of software to support it.
Yeah, I tried this and ended up going back to DejaVu Sans in my Linux dev environment. Source Code Pro looked fuzzy to me.
Never did I suggest the world was fair or that trust fund babies don't have a better chance at a high income than someone born into a iron-workers family.

I was suggesting that there's good money to be made in every discipline - you may need some creativity and personality to get to that money, but no one should ever look at the field they're in and say "Oh, ho hum, I'll never be rich because of my field."

And your socialist quote was misquoted: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abil...

Finally, if your open source code is good in that it is solving problems for people, then you should have a very fertile network of possible consulting clients. Those who use their open source work to feed their consultancies can make very very good money.
Jelly Bean: An Awestruck Operating System of Android.
Will Android Tablets Overtake the iPad?
Where did the .dev fad come from? Why is the web being taken over by folks who don't try to begin to understand how the internet works?
So that when an artist sells a painting for $10 that gets resold for $100 million, the artist can realize some of the true value of the work they produced.
i find this attitude troubling on a couple of levels...

so we should not pursue to solve inherently complex problems for fear that we won't be able to explain them within the time frame for an elevator pitch? is ADD really that prevalent?
Thx. I think Apple had a famous one too.
Very true, if you cant explian your idea in one paragraph then in many ways you don't understand it yourself.

Like first impressions, the first paragraph in anything counts. With that any article that can't be summed up in a headline is more than one article. This one is spot on, even if it is more than one paragraph and laid out so is easier to digest.
I really don't understand the point you're trying to make. Given your experience I would like to, can you expand it a bit? What's the problem?
Just curious - what do you find so distracting?
Go learn about Cross-domain origin policies and then come back.
It's worse than that -- regular Ibuprofen users are destroying their livers:

"The Effect of Ibuprofen on the Liver":

http://www.ehow.com/about_5185317_effect-ibuprofen-liver.htm...

A quote: "Hepatitis caused by ibuprofen is marked by abdominal pain and tenderness on the upper right side, dark-colored urine, diarrhea, headache, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, fatigue, jaundice and white or clay-colored stool (NIH) ... The treatment for ibuprofen-induced liver damage is simply discontinuing use of the drug (NIH)."

So sayeth Captain Obvious.

To me, the problem is not prescription drugs that should be freely available, it's freely available drugs that should be prescription.
I didn't get the loan (and another one after that)
SV Venture Capitalist breakdowns Shark Tank week 4
So it was a situation wholly unlike that of St. Louis? Cool.
I think the point that Einstein was making that you should be able to explain it to a 6 year old but not necessarily expect him to understand your explanation. I would love to hear him explain why e=mc^2 to a 6 year old and then quiz the 6 year old.
I agree. If you don't shine a light on all aspects of cyber-space, the only ones who know about it are the 'bad guys'. We all need to be more aware of the extra freedoms and the extra obligations the Internet imposes on us all.
+1

Also, uploading the data to Dropbox server, and then downloading again, wastes valuable quota for those under a data cap.
On most distros third-party fonts can be installed locally in ~/.fonts/
While the problem may be complex, the description of why the problem should be solved should be simple.
Subdomains. Rails apps. Multiple apps running at the same time together. There are a few reasons this is useful. Please be more constructive with your feedback.
Well, that's awesome. I've liked Tig's stuff for years, too.
I can understand why, particularly given Dropbox's aim of being as simple as it can possibly be. At the moment the rule is simple. At the moment the cloud can be relied on as the authorative copy which everyone syncs with. If I have 3 or more local clients, all talking and sharing over LAN, many issues get very complicated.
I would be remiss not to point out Inconsolata. It's perfect (IMHO) for code, terminals, and email.

http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
That help won't be coming from politicians, because they don't even remotely get that wealth and wealth creation are linked. And despite what OP wrote, the fundamentals haven't changed in any other way that was perceptible to me.

I can't tell you exactly what's wrong with startups in Europe. It's no one thing. It's thousands of things.

Unless you've experienced the Bay Area, it's probably impossible to anticipate what you're missing. I didn't. The stuff you get in the Bay Area is stuff that doesn't transfer over the internet - so just by reading hackernews and techcrunch you have no means to figure out what is or could be different.

I think Paul Graham's argument (paraphrased) that all startups die by default, but in some environments they sometimes get saved, might come closest in describing what's happening.

I think the statistics argument really is the most solid one (though admittedly self-fulfilling, because it means the most driven entrepreneurs leave). Unless something fundamentally changes, any improvements to the ecosystem will have to be gradual over a long time.
And they are right.

It's not a defect, it's just a negative point about the camera. That's all. No big deal. Here is what dpreview writes about the haze: http://www.dpreview.com/articles/6867454450/quick-review-app...

These small cameras make heaps of trade offs, stuff like that is just normal. Know about that and decide accordingly. That's all there is to it.
If you actually try it using the tool you yourself mentioned you'll see that progressive JPEG's are in fact smaller.
Hey I'd like a simple app that tracks how many people click each option, sets a cookie etc

I realize it's pretty trivial for a javascript dev to do, but I don't want to spend time finding someone etc.

Of course I'm open to a ready made script etc, doesn't have to be a SAAS app necessarily.

Just thought maybe there is something out there already as segmenting website visitors like this is very powerful.
As some famous person said, I'm sorry this letter is so long but I did not have time to write a shorter one. Part of this topic is clearly about understanding your idea well. Given that, it is then necessary to put yourself in the position of your listener and figure out how best to present it in the shortest possible way without losing the 'magic'.
Now we know how africa feels.
Most startup founders do not have a separation of business and personal life or have very little separation. When setup properly outgoing emails will be sent from the correct address. There are no security concerns, someone can easily download all their mail if they're trying to get a copy.
thank you - it made quite a difference on high density thinkpad display.
"So we should not pursue to solve inherently complex problems for fear that we won't be able to explain them within the time frame for an elevator pitch? is ADD really that prevalent?"

Unfortunately yes. There aren't many hard and fast rules in the startup world, but I think the closest we've got is that it's always better to sacrifice value for better explainability.

If people can't understand it in a sentence then they aren't going to use it. And if you can get them using it then you can always add more functionality later.

Problems that are inherently too complicated to explain in a sentence or two aren't worth solving, at least not for startups. That's why we have government and non-profits.

That's not to say everyone needs to able to grok every implication right off the bat. For my own startup everyone can understand what I'm working on after a sentence, but no one can understand why it's a good idea without reading another three or four paragraphs. That's fine though, because it will be obvious once it's launched without having to read anything.
Really, the whole manual is published in engraved-in-stone visual style? That is enough to convince me not to let this software run on my machine, especially not with admin privileges.
> I think the point that Einstein was making that you should be able to explain it to a 6 year old but not necessarily expect him to understand your explanation.

Perhaps, but (a) I don't think so and (b) we'll never know for sure. :)

I'm pretty sure the point he was making is that most scientific ideas are accessible to concise explanation with no loss of comprehension. Of course, he said this before the time of quantum theories, to which he strenuously objected for the remainder of his life.

> I would love to hear him explain why e=mc^2 to a 6 year old and then quiz the 6 year old.

e = mc^2 is actually pretty easy to explain, if one accepts the premise of energy conservation. But I agree that the read-back from the average six-year-old would at best be mildly entertaining. From a truly bright six-year-old, I would hope to hear something like, "Because all energy has to be somewhere, potential energy makes things heavier."
Yes, it looks really great in Emacs http://imgur.com/7rBbP I just find the black font a bit too heavy, but everything else is fine.
May be an issue with your computer / config. I've been using Vimium for a long time and have never had it crash anything.
RIP: Motorola Webtop and laptop docks officially dead
Clearly, you didn't even look at the article yesterday, nor any of the comments nor any of the replies to your run and gun comment. That 90 item list was near universally praised.

There are times when people need to expand their attention to read more than a page of writing.

Not everything can be explained so succinctly. Books exist for a reason.

I agree that people need to to be able to explain their companies and what they do in one paragraph - at a high level. But that is a skill that is easily honed by an afternoon of thought... no need to be so dismissive.
> SourceCodePro is too wide or has too much horizontal spacing for me.

I think so, too. At least compared to Consolas which I use and prefer.
WebGL Meeting - chat with friends in 3D
I have seen this tiger used as example in several places. Does vector graphics has more such semi-standard test images? (in a simillar fasion to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_3D_test_models)
> Spammers use cheap dynamic IP's therefore anyone with a cheap dynamic IP that sends an email is a spammer

Considering the majority of spam these days is probably sent through botnets, that's a pretty good assumption.
The few people who actually know what he does completely respect him; but no one else gets it.

I am curious for this guy whether he doesn't care. For me, I'm similar in some respects at my workplace. I don't do the things that I think are BS and a waste of time, even if they're mandated by various senior people. Though some things, I do if my manager talks with me privately, asking me to help him get it done for whatever political reason may exist (politics is usually the only reason why I do things that are garbage, and my manager has to convince me).

I don't do the best work in the world, but I am above-average at my workplace. I am given a lot of the high-priority and difficult projects. I recently have been first or second choice for various role changes, which I'd normally jump at if my current projects were not so critical and the fact that I'd already committed (I am one of the cheesy guys who says that my word is stronger than oak). The fact is, I have the respect of the people I deem most important, and that's proven out by who gets what projects, and how I'm given a long leash for various stupid things. I don't care what any of my peers would think, though the fact is that most of them do respect me and many come to me for advice about various matters.

I agree that it's possible it won't work. But I'd also say nobody should be cocky enough to start doing this until they've truly proven themselves through multiple hellfire crises (i.e. established track record when the chips are down). With a proper track record, there is no reason why it won't work.

And in that scenario, even if it's only a few people who respect me, that's enough. They are the ones I care about. If 95% of the company thinks I'm doing nothing or am worthless, that's fine. What matters to me is if I'm respected by the 5% who take care of my raises, promotion opportunities, and company strategy and budgets.
Larry Ellison: What the hell is cloud computing [2008]
Get better coworkers. I have some, and we are hiring.
None-one's mentioned it so I want to point out Anonymous Pro, pretty much the first thing I install on every dev machine.

http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html
Selling pickaxes has always been more reliably profitable than panning for gold yourself.

In the current extremely crunched market you really can have the best of both worlds. Market salary and equity.
I wish the article had been titled, "Why I use the word 'scoundrels' in the 21st century."
Disruptions: With a 3-D Printer, Building a Gun With the Push of a Button
I'm also a Consolas user. For me, Inconsolata and SourceCodePro have the same issue: the horizontal placement of @ drives me nuts.
The land of the free. Where you loose your job if someone finds out you live in a van.
Tottenham vs Aston Villa 2-0 Goals & Highlights
Great work !!

This system has full potential to help the masses.
Einstein was also not a programmer :)

I had the great honor of working with Brian Kernighan (I would personally consider him one of the greatest programmers that the world has seen) and was taken aback by his organization skills. My conclusion is clearly based on my experiences.
I believe those exploits are Java applets breaking out of the browser-plugin sandbox, which is designed to limit application access to even simple things like files and class loading. To be clear, these aren't strictly JVM vulnerabilities, and more plugin security-model vulnerabilities.

Java "desktop" applications don't have such a sandbox and thus they already have access to things that the vulnerabilities enable (such as manipulating system properties). Really, we ought to treat Java desktop apps no differently than native binaries, bounded by the the OS' security model.
What a load of entitled nonsense, this article is nothing but an unfounded rant IMO. By generalizing "Europe" as a single market / country - which it is FAR from in reality, the author has demonstrated that they really don't know what they are talking about, no entrepreneur in Europe would generalize in this way. Each country has its own set of unique laws, challenges as well as opportunities.

I have founded companies in Ireland & never encountered any bureaucracy or red tape which prevented us from following our plans or accessing markets.

In fact, one of the governments business development agencies gave us free rent in an incubator for 2 years, connected us with business mentors, used its connections to setup some key introductions which led to our first sales which really helped get the business off of the ground. All for no commitments or equity stake.
With all respect, I consider Terminus better, among other things because it is more compact and more readable